The Soares surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 11,694 people carried this name — #3,069 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 25,300 people counted. That is up 21% from 9,633 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Soares surname
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Soarez.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Soares» (Portuguese), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
3,312 people named Soares live in Switzerland.
They live in all 26 of Switzerland’s cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,796 people named Soares live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Misiones.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 660 people named Soares.
Most of them — 410 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 63 départements, most often Paris.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 22 people named Soares live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
45 people named Soares is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Soares in American newspapers,
1909–1960.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 502,271 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Soares,
with a public archive behind them.
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Lopo Soares de Albergaria 1442–1520 · sailor -
Henrique de Coimbra 1465–1532 · Catholic priest -
Manuel de Santa Catarina 1726–1812 · Catholic priest -
António Pinto Soares 1780–1865 · politician -
Francisco José de Sousa Soares de Andrea 1781–1858 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 255 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Soares.
- Smith 2,442,977 · U.S. census
- Smits 2,409 · U.S. census
- Smolarek 277 · U.S. census
- Smolen 1,655 · U.S. census
- Smolinski 2,125 · U.S. census
- So 7,456 · U.S. census
- Soave 569 · U.S. census
- Sobanski 262 · U.S. census
- Sobczak 2,740 · U.S. census
- Sobczyk 598 · U.S. census
- Sobieraj 285 · U.S. census
- Sobkowiak 358 · U.S. census
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